Recounts Allied efforts to cross the Rhine and force Germany's surrender, and discusses strategies as well as the experiences of individual soldiers

Rhineland: The Battle to End the War

History

Whitaker, W. Denis

Whitaker, Shelagh

Americas

St Martins Pr

“It was the [allied armies’] valor, their endurance, and their ability to adapt that won the battle of Normandy and launched the liberation of Western Europe.” —from Normandy: The Real Story For decades, it’s been the conventional wisdom that “brute force” alone beat the German army at Normandy. Now a definitive new history, coauthored by a highly decorated field commander, proves otherwise. Using archival data, oral histories, and exclusive new interviews, Normandy: The Real Story takes the reader deep into the minds, hearts, and souls of the allied armies to show how—despite the shortcomings of their superiors and the inferiority of their weaponry—they destroyed two well-equipped German armies and won the war. Here is the crucial summer of 1944 as seen by both sides, from the British spy, code-named “Garbo,” who successfully misled the Nazis about the time and place of the D-day landings, to the poor planning for action after the assault that forced the allies to fight for nine weeks “field to field, hedgerow to hedgerow.” Here too are the questionable command decisions of Montgomery, Eisenhower, and Bradley, the insatiable ego of Patton. Yet, fighting in some of the most miserable conditions of the war, the allied soldiers used ingenuity, resilience, and raw courage to drive the enemy from France in what John Keegan describes as “the biggest disaster to hit the German army in the course of the war.” Normandy is an inspiring tribute to the common fighting men of five nations who won the pivotal campaign that lead to peace and freedom.

Normandy: The Real Story

Copp, Terry

Whitaker, Dennis

Military

Presidio Press

Stoddart Publishing Co.

Book by Whitaker, Denis, Whitaker, Shelagh, Whitaker, W. Denis

Witaker, Denis

Stoddart Pub.

One morning in August 1942, Canadian troops undertook the largest and most complex amphibious assault of World War II. It was a display of camaraderie and courage that paved the way for future triumphs, but nevertheless the landings at Dieppe were a tragic disaster. In Winona, Ontario, two weeks after the raid, the residents read the casualty lists. Awakening, like the rest of Canada, to the extent of the disaster, they realized that every single young man of fighting age of the town's population had been killed or taken prisoner in one morning. This account chronicles the political and military events leading to the assault, and the action itself. The book includes personal reports, memories and profiles of key participants, and is based on recently-released archive material that offers evidence of high-level involvement in the planning and tragedy of Dieppe. Exploring the political manouevres that set the wheels in motion, the book builds to the bloody events, which are related by several of the commanders, both Allied and German.

Dieppe: Tragedy to Triumph

Brigadier General Denis

Leo Cooper

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